What Bosses does your club use?

[BillM]

We now shoot on straw bosses. We started indoors at the Sports Centre who had layered foam ones but they tended to get shot out quickly because nobody knew to rotate them and position the targets in different places each session. The club then bought Karphos bosses as nobody in the club was any the wiser to the "advice" that they would last for ages. True, as they weigh about 70kg and as the longbow interest increased people didn't want to shoot on them. They are O.K. at distance but hard to draw arrows if they are shot on up close. We bought a few straw bosses to appease the bendy stick brigade and the recurvers chose to shoot on them as well. We have gradually increased the number of straw bosses over the years and now have 11 that are still in good condition as no-one in the club really groups in the centre. We have 10 redundant Karphos bosses that are in nearly new condition at the back of the container. I suppose they will come in handy some day.

BillM

[Insanity-Rocks]

Originally Posted by N.Vodden

We have a pile of 3d's that we take out for fun shoots and the occasional 3d round.

That I have to climb over the wooden steaks to fetch

[Dougal]

Originally Posted by darthter

I have shot some comps on Straw bosses - didn't like them at all, especially in the wet. At one comp it was taking at least 2 or 3 folk to pull my arrows!!!

It all depends on which straw bosses you shoot at, Egertec seem to be OK but the Italian ones are full of glue, and compounds especially get stuck.
We shoot on Egertecs, and have 15 or so with 4 new ones on their way.

[N.Vodden]

Originally Posted by Insanity-Rocks

That I have to climb over the wooden steaks to fetch

it was my turn the last time around, this one was yours next time we send emyr 'over the top'!

[Matt_1440]

Indoors, all of the bosses are straw.
Outdoors, up until this summer, most of the bosses were straw, with a couple of layered foam bosses. Mid-summer, we bought 2 danage bosses, so we can use all three types now.

[bkupris]

Layered foam bosses but we are a field club.

[madmac]

We shoot at straw bosses 90% of the time and some are about 8+ years old . But we do shoot once a week outdoors on merlins most excellant tuff shot targets

[bimble]

Both at Uni (swansea) and at home it's straw bosses, though home has one foam boss and Uni has three square bosses that weigh a ton, fronted and backed with plyboard and are impossible to develop a soft spot on. Mainly because no-one will shoot them!!

Definately a Pro-tour breaker!!!

[Huffy]

The Colchester club shoots on Straw bosses (A mixture of egertecs and Perris archery’s Heavy duty bosses) .We also have one of the whitetails and have just replaced the centre. I do not know ifs the Velocicore centre but it varies a lot in density. One arrow will come out easily but another arrow less than ¾” away require two people to pull it. Its was not because of the boss being shoot out in that spot as this was the first session of shooting on the new centre.(Recurve arrow 40# at 80 yards)

Best wishes, Mark

[John (OSF)]

Straw indoor and layered foam out